The first week of fighting has brought news
reports from independent journalists that reveal the true colors of the Iraqi
regime. No one should be surprised that in Saddam's world, POWs are shot in the
head; or that Iraqi soldiers would pretend to surrender in order to ambush Americans;
or by any of the other nasty tactics reported thus far.

U.N. Secretary-General,
Kofi Annan has shown his true colors; he chose to ignore these atrocities, and
instead, chose to condemn the explosions in a market place presumed, and reported
to be, U.S. missiles that may have gone astray, which may well have been Iraqi
missiles.

Annan
expressing regret on March 26 at the UN Security Council that the crisis in Iraq
could not have been solved through peaceful means

Last
Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council showed its true colors by opening its doors
to all members who wished to make statements condemning the coalition action in
Iraq. Only the delegate from Kuwait spoke in favor of unseating Saddam. If anyone
ever had any doubt that the U.N. is an anti-American institution, that doubt should
certainly now be removed.

Perhaps, finally, America is showing its true
colors - red, white, and blue - by ignoring the U.N., and putting an end to Saddam's
dangerous reign of terror. What comes next at the U.N. will be of historic importance.

Both
Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac are insisting that the U.N., not the coalition forces,
be in charge of administering post-Saddam Iraq. The Bush administration is not
rushing to embrace this idea.

There are indications that the U.S. is willing
to let the U.N. continue administering the "oil for food" program, and,
perhaps, deliver other humanitarian aid, but in the matter of organizing a new
government, the U.S. has its own ideas.

For Annan and Chirac, the issue
is not the future of Iraq, but the future of the U.N. that is of greatest concern.
America has persuaded 47 nations to publicly join the coalition of the willing,
and with the non-public supporters, the coalition is nearly twice the size of
the U.N.-backed Desert Storm coalition. This coalition includes the majority of
the European Union, and the majority of NATO, leaving France and Germany, as the
isolated nations.

Since both France and Germany must have the United Nations
to exercise the anticipated power of the European Union, the future administration
of Iraq is of utmost importance to them. If the United States ignores their demands,
and creates an administrative mechanism outside the U.N., the relevance 
and the future  of the U.N. and the European Union will be in question.

Despite
the anti-American rhetoric that has, and will continue to spew forth from the
Arab press, and much of the liberal press in the U.S., the United States should
not trust the U.N. with any important mission. The U.N. has demonstrated its anti-American
bias, its inefficiency, indeed, its corruption in many areas, and its inability,
or unwillingness, to enforce its own resolutions.

The United Nations' vision
of creating world peace through world law, judged by a world court, enforced by
a world army - has failed. It has failed because Americans are not willing to
surrender their freedom and sovereignty to a world government.

The conflict
between national sovereignty and global government has been on a collision course
since the inception of the U.N. The two forces collided on March 17, when the
United States announced the end of discussions about Iraq. When allied forces
moved into Iraq, without formal U.N. approval, it proved only one thing: U.N.
approval is meaningless.

The same nations that provided the money and the
military power to drive Saddam out of Kuwait, are now driving him from power.
The fact is, that the U.N.'s approval of Desert Storm had nothing to do with its
success. The absence of U.N. approval has nothing to do with the success of the
current battle. In fact, had it not been for the U.N.'s involvement with Desert
Storm, which prevented the removal of Saddam 11 years ago, this battle would not
have been necessary.

It's time to let the U.N. fade away. Some of the international
organizations that now operate under its auspices may, indeed, be important. If
they are, they can earn their continued existence by providing a real service
to the nations that pay for their existence. More than 130 U.N. agencies and organizations
have become nothing more than self-perpetuating bureaucracies working to justify
their own existence.

Now is the time to support Congressman Ron Paul's HR114,
a bill calling for the withdrawal of the United States from the U.N. Now is the
time for the United States to ignore the demands of Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac,
and help the Iraqi people discover the freedom that Saddam has denied them. Now
is the time for the United States to stand firmly on the principles of freedom,
and not in the shadow of the U.N.